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Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:33:54 +0000http://malvasiabianca.org/archives/2006/08/this-is-why-i-want-to-learn-ruby/#comment-6079[…] So, given that I’m not going to stop now, what next? Rewrite it in Ruby, for one. I’m starting to chafe at Java more and more: just today I ran into a few places where I could use lambda, a few places where static typing was being mildly annoying. So I’ll start by rewriting the CLI tool in Ruby, then rewrite the HTML conversion part in Ruby. After that, I’ll generate the web pages on the fly instead of statically, using mod_ruby. (I don’t plan to learn Rails for now: I don’t have any good applications for that in mind.) After which, who knows; maybe I’ll stop there, maybe I’ll convert the editing tool from a CLI application to a web application. Maybe I’ll play around with web services, scraping book information from Amazon. Hard to say. […]
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